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Anachronisms: The song sung by Frank Sinatra on screen in the scene at Radio City Music Hall, "If You Are But a Dream," [written by Moe Jaffe (my father), Nat Bonx, and Jack Fulton], was published in 1942, after the supposed date of the event portrayed. Additionally, the particular recording used in the film dates from 1944.See more »

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Narrator:[First Lines] Once upon a time, many years ago, two burglars broke into our neighbors house in Rockaway. Mr. and Mrs. Needleman had gone to a movie and the following events occurred.See more »

What a beautiful, kind, gentle, ironic, warm, sentimental (in a very
good way and yes, I am talking about Woody Allen's movie, that's right)
yet perfectly balanced delight. It is a series of sketches about young
Joe (young Allen, of course, played by Seth Green - that was a
surprise), an adolescent in Brooklyn, NY during 1930s-1940s who was
passionately in love with radio which was a king. The film is a tribute
to the magical radio days and the myths and legends about radio
personalities, the memory of a grown man who never forgot where he came
from, the love letter to his always fighting and arguing ("I mean, how
many people argue over oceans?") but loving relatives and a very funny
comedy (the way only Allen's comedy can be). It is the film where
pretty like a doll and painfully naive Sally (Mia Farrow) asks who
Pearl Harbor is? Where gorgeous Diane Keaton sings and Diane Wiest, his
beloved Aunt Bea never gives up hope of one true love. He never told us
if she found it...

"I never forgot that New Year's Eve when Aunt Bea awakened me to watch
1944 come in. I've never forgotten any of those people or any of the
voices we would hear on the radio. Though the truth is, with the
passing of each New Year's Eve, those voices do seem to grow dimmer and
dimmer."

The Radio days are gone but thanks to Allen, the voices of the times
passed are still clear and sound and they always will be.

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